For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism. " If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
My uncle Buddy MacMaster is one of the greatest fiddlers Cape Breton has ever produced, and we've produced a lot of them! His fellow fiddlers owe him a huge debt, for he has greatly influenced and inspired all of us. He makes you want to dance; he can bring tears to your eyes. Anyone who likes Cape Breton fiddle - no, anyone who likes fiddling - needs to own this album
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.